Understanding Interactive Tax Area Assignment

You can interactively assign tax areas to employee records and to business unit records using the GeoCoder. When you assign employee tax areas interactively, the GeoCoder assigns the correct work and residence tax area information to the employee at the time that you enter the employee's information into the system. Similarly, when you enter or update business unit constants, the GeoCoder assigns a tax area to the business unit.

The GeoCoder uses the employee address information to determine the correct GeoCode for the residence tax area. Similarly, the GeoCoder uses the address information associated with a business unit to assign the correct GeoCode to the Tax Area - Payroll field in the business unit constants. The GeoCode from the employee's home business unit is used to populate the employee's work tax area.

If only one possible tax area exists, given the address information, the system automatically populates the Tax Area (Work) and Tax Area (Residence) fields during employee entry. When assigning tax area information to business units, the system automatically updates the Tax Area - Payroll field. If multiple tax area codes exist that might be valid for the employee or business unit, the system displays the possible choices when you click the visual assist on any of the tax area fields.

You can use the GeoCoder interactively to assign employee tax areas when you enter employee records one at a time or when you enter groups of employees using Employee Quick Hire (P060116Q).